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An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting
A few weeks ago at Figma, we experienced our first-ever spam attack. This proved the value of Figma’s rate limiter and finally put a stop to the longstanding joke that I had built it in vain.During the...
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Online adverts 'exploit homeless for sex'
13 April 2017From the section EnglandThese are external links and will open in a new windowShare this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with MessengerShare this with MessengerShare this...
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WebVR Experiments
Everyone should be able to experience VR, and WebVR is a big step in that direction. It’s open to all browsers, making it easier for developers to create something quickly and share it with everyone,...
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This Cuban man is trying to build the world's tallest bike at 10 metres
It’s not possible to keep up with 52-year-old Félix Ramón Guirola Cepero, and it’s not wise to try. On a bright winter day, he flew down Havana’s famed Malecón on his bicycle as tourists and locals...
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Security Certifications Are Causing More Harm Than Good
February 24, 2017Here’s an excerpt from a 2016 Ars Technica article:Recruiter Thomas Ptacek, whose Chicago-based agency Starfighter specializes in recruiting security folk, describes the CISSP as “a...
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How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
September 3, 2016 was just another day for most of the world but to me it will always be memorable as the day that I married my partner.There are many different aspects to consider while planning a...
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The Safe C Library
Editor's Note: Since this article first appeared, Bo Berry has released the Safe Math Library which complements the Safe C Library by catching arithmetic overflows. The recently released Safe C Library...
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Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA
From BlenderWikiCycles has a split OpenCL kernel since Blender release 2.75. It's an alternative approach to what is used on CPU (so called megakernel). The idea behind splitting the kernel is to have...
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Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
Chrome Platform StatusChrome versionsExcept as otherwise noted, the content of this page under CC Attribution 2.5 license. Code examples are Apache-2.0.What you're looking at is a mostly comprehensive...
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Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring a Dev Ops Engineer
At Rescale, you will help the world's leading engineers and scientists develop the next generation of disruptive innovations. Our team members have the unique opportunity to learn and contribute to...
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Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
The very nice and kind nerds at Mastodon are at it again.Mouse Reeve, whose day job is software engineering and development at Internet Archive, created the social network's instance oulipo.social...
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Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields all 4 RNA bases
Life on Earth may have started with a bang.There aren't a lot of individual experiments that have ended up being staples of high school textbooks, but Stanley Miller and Harold Urey did one of them....
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How Pushing to Extremes Led an Amateur Cyclist to Ventricular Tachycardia
VeloClub Insider is an exclusive membership that gains you first access to our best stories, exclusive content curated just for you, as well as rides, training plans, pro-deals and more that will...
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The Elements of Bureaucratic Style
Colin Dickey | Longreads | April 2017 | 12 minutes | 3000 wordsOn Monday night, Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines, sent an internal email to his staff regarding the incident on Flight 3411 in...
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in...
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The Case for Shyness
The Heimlich maneuver, in the nearly 50 years since Dr. Henry Heimlich established its protocol, has been credited with saving many lives. But not, perhaps, as many as it might have. The maneuver,...
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Inside the dev kits for Xbox: Project Scorpio
Microsoft’s Xbox One turns four this year. Before the year is out, the company plans to provide its aging console with a beefier, more capable sibling: Project Scorpio.It’s been about a year since news...
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Instagram Stories MAU Surpasses Snapchat
“Move last and take things” seems to be Facebook’s new motto.Now the parent company’s top Snapchat clone Instagram Stories has hit 200 million daily active users, surpassing the last count of 161...
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Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter
EX-99.1Exhibit 99.1 Jeff, what does Day 2 look like? Thats a question I just got at our most recent all-hands meeting. Ive been reminding people that its Day 1 for a couple of decades. I work in...
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Mary Anderson, a Founder of the Outdoor Cooperative REI, Dies at 107
PhotoMary and Lloyd Anderson, who founded REI in 1938, modeled mountaineering clothing for a 1946 newspaper photograph.Credit MOHAI, Seattle P-I Collection Mary Anderson, who, with her husband, founded...
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